I was twenty-one years when I wrote this song I'm twenty-two now, but I won't be for long People ask me when will I grow up to understand Why the girls I knew a...

(Kirsty MacColl/Marshall Crenshaw) I'm nearly sober And I can see the truth I'm not immune to the sorrow that you put me through All I ever wanted Was a little ...

I want so much to do so well I've tried too hard till I can't tell Am I right? I ask you now, am I right? I'm asking an opinion If you've got one will you give...

As long as you hold me I'll get by As long as you need me I will try not to die I don't want the shame I don't want the blame I don't want the fame anymore If ...

A busy life keeps a body busy With so many same old things to do So why not stop a while and take a good look around? Maybe you will find out something new to y...

In a dream of a desolate land Finding my feet on the wide white sand alone now Shot down in apathy during the war Never been north of the wise old Thames before...

He blew into town like a paper sack In a stolen car with a shotgun in the back he said She can't run now, she can't hide I'm gonna get her back for her lies lie...

(Kirsty MacColl/Johnny Marr) Children of the revolution coming out to play Bombers ripped the night apart and blew the school away Some live on the south side a...

You turned all my dreams into nightmares But you won't turn my water to wine Now you don't handle me like that rosary I've seen you carressing now and again Is ...

Anna McGarrigle/Philip Tatartcheff) Moi, j'me promene sur Ste Cath'rine J'profite d'la chaleur du metro J'ne regarde pas dans les vitrines Quand il fait trente...

When you do know what you don't know When you can't tell what you do know And it gets so very hard to see And if you weren't expecting trouble And I burst your...

(Kirsty MacColl) He said, 'Baby don't go' So she sat down again And they said they'd be friends Her mother said She'd told her so She'd made her own bed Now she...

Darling, let's have another baby Let's make one soon on our second honeymoon Darling, I need you to be near me To kiss and to touch, I love you very much Darlin...

Raymond D Davies) Thank you for the days Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me I'm thinking of the days I won't forget a single day believe me I b...

(kirsty maccoll) Some boys with warm beds and cold, cold hearts Can make you feel nothing at all They'll never remember and they'll never mind If you're counti...

(kirsty maccoll/mark e nevin) I had a dream You walked away You couldn't hear what I wanted to say I had a dream I was alone Nowhere was mine No one was home ...

Don't go near the water Don't you think it's sad What's happened to the water Our water's going bad Oceans, rivers, lakes and streams Have all been touched by m...

It's time now to pick all the toys off the floor I'll say it again and I've said it before We don't have a nickel to spend at the store And don't run away from ...

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso I fell in love with a Mexican girl Night-time would find me in Rosa's Cantina Music would play and Felina would whirl One...

It was Christmas Eve babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me, won't see another one And then he sang a song The Rare Old Mountain Dew And I turned my face ...

He had the kind of face she?d seen on the tv He drove her home one night and made her happy He used to phone her after work at the weekend And took her out when...

(Kirsty MacColl) Seven times in seven days I've sat and wished my life away I know the greyness comes and goes But the sun don't shine And the snow don't snow T...

(Kirsty MacColl) I thought of you when they closed down the school And the hospital too Did they think that you were better? They were wrong You had so many fri...

(Kirsty MacColl/Mark ENevin) I must have fallen on my feet A hundred times or more I heard the wind blow down the street The knocking at the door But there was ...

All babies together, everyone one a seed Half of us are satisfied, half of us in need Love's bountiful in us, tarnished by our greed Oh when will there be a har...

Kirsty MacColl/Jem Finer) I couldn't hear him when he called to me I couldn't hear him at all you see He was down the road away from me How could I know his an...

He thinks I still He thinks I still He thinks I still care Just because I asked a friend about him Just because I spoke his name somewhere Just because I calle...

(Kirsty MacCollGavin Povey) He was just a friend of mine I'd run in to from time to time And long before he moved away We used to share a taste for wine Still ...

How insensitive I must have seemed When he told me that he loved me How unmoved and cold I must have seemed When he told me so sincerely Why, he must have aske...

I am afraid of the dark I am afraid of the day I am afraid to walk outside And of what people say I am afraid to drink too much Because of what I might do I am...

I hear a lot of talk about the things you say are good for me to do I've tried cooperation but I don't get nothing coming back from you So don't you like my fa...

Twenty, twenty, twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated Nothing to do, nowhere to go Oh, Oh, I wanna be sedated Put me in a wheelchair And get me to the sho...

Well I'm no cold hearted Jezebel I've been doing my best to love you well I've done my best to play the part And kill this drifter in my heart But it's killing...

He buys me movies and I am the star He sends me to work in a black shiny car The girls in the chorus are jealous as hell But I find it pays when you kiss and yo...

I once met a man with a sense of adventure He was dressed to thrill wherever he went He said "lets make love on a mountaintop under the stars on a big hard rock...

(Kirsty MacColl/Pete Glenister) It wouldn't take a long time To explain what lies between us And it wouldn't take a genius To work out what the scene is It migh...

Just one look and I felt so wild Felt so wild in love with you I found out how good it feels Just how good to have your love Say you will, you will be mine You'...

(kirsty maccoll/david ruffy) Behind a burning bush he?s waiting Like a sleepless night So silent and so strong I know that I must push push push Until the morn...

We've been friends for oh so long I let you share what's mine But when it comes to the boy I love It's time to draw the line Keep your hands off my baby I ain'...

King Kong, you gotta come home You've a wife and family all alone in the jungle Are you receiving OK? King Kong you done what you shouldn't a did You got a wom...

Strange, I've seen that face before Seen him hanging round my door Like a hawk stealing for the prey Like the night waiting for the day Strange, he shadows me ...

Days of old when knights were bold, Britain ruled supreme Songs were sung and tales were told, life was like a dream Top men like the great King Arthur never ca...

I was born and I was bred I was reared and I was fed Moved into the neighbourhood Where I was bad and I was good I fixed things for people there I took them out...

The rain attacks my bedroom window The thunder roars above Tonight's the night, well should have been A night spent with my love But the rain still pours above...

The ship was heaving with a mass of humankind My heart was grieving for the the land that lay behind The cruel ocean echoed all those sad goodbyes That at my le...

(kirsty maccoll) Maybe it's imaginary, I'd like to know What's the world coming to and where will it go? The hole in the sky where the sunshine gets in It drie...

If you go to acapulco When you take your holiday Have some fun with your carraco Down in mexicana way For sixteen dollars a day Sitting on a mexicana sofa Sixte...

(Kirsty MacColl) Chaque journee dans la foret de mimosas Dans le parking tous les amoureux Ecoutez bien dans la foret de mimosas L'air deborde de cris de coeur ...

'Mother's ruin' She said to herself 'I'm just screwing my own mental health' But Fridays and Saturdays She walks down those alleyways A latter day lady of the l...

It's no use knocking on my door I won't be answering any more So don't come round here like you did before I'm moving out, no doubt about it Take the video Tak...

(Kirsty MacColl/Mark ENevin) When I was just a child My folks would drive me wild They'd spy upon my every move Until it drove me to despair They told me what t...

All it took was the time it takes To smoke a cigarette or jam on the brakes I nearly had it in my hands and now it's gone Am I complaining 'bout by luck again? ...

She awakes when the sun has found her face And she reaches for the tin where she keeps important things A cigarette, a magic bean, a page torn from a magazine A...

(Kirsty MacColl) I must have been driving all day But I'm getting no further away All these towns look the same And the rain is falling in my eyes Take me away ...

I'm staying home this evening And playing my guitar And all the time I'm strumming I'm wondering where you are Oh yes I know it's over I know I shouldn't care B...

Chorus: Yeah, Yeah people uniting around the World Yeah, Yeah working together to fight the good fight Yeah, Yeah love's never ending we've shined our light Ye...

Please help me, I'm falling in love with you Close the door to temptation Don't let me walk through Turn away from me darling I'm begging you to Please help me,...

It was sublime, it was thunder, As my life got torn asunder I felt the rhythm of the real thing Falling down is nothing new We all fall down now, even you I fe...

I brush my teeth, I dry my hair I put on skimpy underwear And I ride To hell and back Yeah I ride Carving up the nation Or the nearest service station I ride M...

Oh I am just a vagabond A drifter on the run And elequant profanity It rolls right off my tongue And I have dined in palaces Drunk wine with kings and queens B...

In America you'll get food to eat Won't have to run through the jungle And scuff up your feet You'll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day It's great to ...

He has such good parties I go there all the time It's all so fascinating Cheap thrills and lousy wine His records - Joe Passe So classy I don't know I've seen h...

Your name froze on the winter air An empty bench in Soho Square Forgotten now I turn away Just save me for a rainy day But don't be sorry I don't want to hear i...

I know I stand in line until you think you have the time To spend an evening with me And if we go someplace place to dance I know that there's a chance You won'...

The stranger sits with golden eyes Transfixed upon the screen above Behind the air of his repose He wonders if they're caught his love Sticked and stoned he wa...

Sun on the water Making it hard to see Sun on the water Lapping around my feet Sun on the water Making it hard to see Sun on the water Lapping around my feet ...

Don't tell me the story of your life I've heard too much already You said you've got problems with your wife I'd say the problem's you 'Cause you never grew up ...

Tell my ma when I go home, The boys won't leave the girls alone, They pulled my hair and stole my comb, But that's all right 'till I go home She is handsome, sh...

In more street where I did dwell A butcher boy I loved right well He courted me my life away And now with me he will not stay I wish, I wish, I wish in vain I ...

(Kirsty MacColl/Johnny Marr) I want to tell you something It's not a secret or anything You're not alone in being alone At the end of a perfect day And if you l...

With me in the valley you out on the hill I can just see you if I close my eyes Climbing those mountains I picture you still I see your smile just as I saw the ...

(Kirsty MacColl/Mark ENevin) Sometimes it feels like you never will win Just when you're ready to pack it all in You tear it down and start over again But I'm n...

Oh darling why d'you talk so fast Another evening just flew past tonight And now the daybreak's coming in And i can't win and it ain't right You tell me all you...

(kirsty maccoll) You've been around for such a long time now Or maybe I could leave you but I don't know how And why should I be lonely every night When I can ...

You say you stand by your man Tell me something I don't understand You said you loved me and that's a fact But then you left me, said you felt trapped Well some...

Trains and boats and planes are passing by They mean a trip to Paris or Rome For someone else but not for me The trains and the boats and planes took you away A...

(Kirsty MacColl/Pete Glenister) Another time, another day Another baby on the way A dreamboy for your nightmare nights Who never shouts and never fights Happy w...

I want you to tell me why you walked out on me I'm so lonesome every day I want you to know that since you walked out on me Nothing seems to be the same old way...

(Kirsty MacColl/Johnny Marr) Walking down Madison - I swear I never had a gun No I never shot no-one - I was only having fun Walking down Madison - swear I nev...

Darling While the firelight is low I'm disappearing Like the last day of the snow And really, it's better this way We both know it's over And we'll never pass t...

(Kirsty MacColl/Johnny Marr) Walking down Madison - I swear I never had a gun No I never shot no-one - I was only having fun Walking down Madison - swear I nev...

Kirsty MacColl/Johnny Marr) Will you start my dreams Or will you end my schemes Or will you let me go down, so low? You and me baby, well we got no friends Ex...

If you're wondering why All the love that you long for eludes you And people are rude and cruel to you I'll tell you why I'll tell you why I'll tell you why You...

(Kirsty MacColl/Pete Glenister) She was a party girl, stayed up til the small hours Now she's embarrassing and everybody laughs At the girl with the face that c...

(Kirsty MacColl/Mark E Nevin) I want to shake up this world And not to feel so useless And I long to wake up happy And not to feel so hopeless I want arms that...

I know perfectly well I'm not where I should be I've been very aware You've been patient with me Every time we break up You bring back your love to me And afte...